Asians in Australia: The Dynamic of Migration and Settlement

The "Asian migration" controversy of the 1980s in Australia was reminiscent of that a century earlier. However, as this first major study of the "new" Asian migration of the 1980s illustrates, the circumstances and characteristics have been vastly different. The study places Asia...

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Main Author: Inglis, Christine 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Institute of Southeast Asian Studies [1992]
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Summary:The "Asian migration" controversy of the 1980s in Australia was reminiscent of that a century earlier. However, as this first major study of the "new" Asian migration of the 1980s illustrates, the circumstances and characteristics have been vastly different. The study places Asian immigration in a broader international context in which the emigration to Australia is part of a wider pattern of population movements with diplomatic ramifications and economic implications for both Australia and the emigrants' homeland. This study provides key Australian comparative data to set against the extensive Asian emigration in the 1980s to USA, Canada and New Zealand
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 230 pages)
ISBN:9789814379502

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